Blame Game – Who Are Your Scapegoats?

I had forgotten to pick up the orange juice my
son always likes to drink for breakfast. When
I got home and realized that I needed to apologize
to him for forgetting, I decided that just saying,
"I forgot", didn't seem good enough.
I needed someone else to blame.

So I said, "I'm
sorry I forgot your orange juice. There were so
many shoppers gathered around the cold cases that
I went another direction. If I had passed the
refrigerated items, I would have seen the o.j.
and remembered you were out."

Notice in the above example, how finding someone
else to blame seemed to make it easier for me
to say I goofed. It is like saying I made a boo-boo,
but it wasn't really my fault. Can you think of
times when you might have used a scapegoat to
make yourself appear less blameworthy?